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Middle East policy is as clear as mud
ARE you confused by what is going on in the Middle East? Let me explain. We support the Iraqi government in the fight against Islamic State. We don't like IS, but IS is supported by Saudi Arabia, whom...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 10:31hrs | 395 | by AUBREY BAILEY, Fleet, Hants
Zimbabwean defender joins Iraqi top-flight side
Zimbabwe national team centre back Gerald Takwara has joined Iraq Premier League side Al-Minna SC.Takwara signed for Al-Minna as a free agent after parting ways with Ohod Club at the end of la...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 16:15hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
UAE suspends Gold Refinery over owners' alleged laundering links
The United Arab Emirates suspended the accreditation of one of its biggest gold refineries over concerns that its owners had ties to alleged money launderers.Emirates Gold DMCC — which has o...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:17hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Muslim nations denounce Quran burning in Sweden
Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE and other Middle Eastern nations on Thursday condemned the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi living in Sweden, warning such acts "inflame" the feelings of Muslims around t...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 16:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 13 | by Stephen Bates
UK Rwanda asylum-seeker flight cancelled after European court ruling
A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday, in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.The number ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
UK sends asylum seekers to Rwanda
The British government was to send a first plane carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda yesterday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against the controversial policy.A chartered plane was to...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe banned from flying in the European Union airspace
The national airline Air Zimbabwe has been included in a recently announced European Union Commission Air Safety List of air carriers that do not fulfil international safety standards. T...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 15:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
The end of the Petrodollar and the rise of the Petroyuan
A "Petrodollar" is a U.S. Dollar obtained through the sale of crude oil, i.e. it's a term created particularly to describe the situation of the OPEC countries, where the sale of this commodity allows ...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 07:17hrs | 7 | by Hugo Martins | Analyst
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
When the police officer is actually a thug
CRISES bring out the best or worst in people.Well, for Britain, the current fuel shortages have brought out the bad and nasty side of a people that we are told are supposedly more civilised th...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado How did it start?
No human eye has seen such a level of cruelty perpetrated on another human being by another human. The gruesome nature of the killings rape and suffering caused by these ISIS rebels is indeed knee sha...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The new Minister of Foreign Affairs in Zimbabwe puts sanctions in disarray
The United Kingdom of Britain imposed sanctions on three security chiefs plus a minister of state security. If the president of Zimbabwe appoints cde Isaac Moyo who is currently the Director. General ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 14:16hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences, including GOP allies
President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former gove...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by AP
This is how Zimbabweans can play for a $393 million American jackpot prize
The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is $393 million; you could win it without leaving your home in Zimbabwe!Up until now, you've probably assumed that the...Published: 23 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | 249 | by Staff Writer
'Studying for the Grave'
Morris Mtisi's pen is unrelenting as the didactic nature of his first novel leaves the reader with more questions than answers as to why seemingly very bright female students at university are oblivio...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pamire mocks Mugabe's nephew Chiyangwa
FORMER Zifa president Vincent Pamire has laughed off the ban imposed on him by Phillip Chiyangwa, describing the beleaguered domestic football boss as a dictator who does not want to accept that his t...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi: Walking in the deathly shadows of Kigali and Banjul
Should the architects of the Gukurahundi atrocities committed in Matabeleland and Midlands face legal action in an independent court of law convened in Zimbabwe, Africa or abroad? On May 30, 2016, His...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabwe's Smart Coup: China and Iran are key suspects
Zimbabwe's smart coup was engineered and conceived by Chinese and Iranian allies of both former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Commander of ZDF, Constantine Chiwenga well before the army seized...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 18:33hrs | 16 | by Agencies
Zimbabwean jihadist who fights with Isis 'may still be alive'
UNITED Kingdom-based Zimbabwean man, Raymond Matimba, a jihadist, who fled Manchester for Syria has been identified as a key member of a clique of British fighters that include the notorious Islamic S...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judges block bid to prosecute Blair over war crimes
Tony Blair should not face prosecution for his role in the 2003 Iraq war, the high court has ruled.The lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and another senior judge, Mr Justice Ouseley...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa hardly recovered from the race sentiment of apartheid
It is very easy to think it is the flash, not the flame; that burns big logs. The local media excitedly reported on the resignation of an aide of Mujuru's Nats, in the process missing the actual burni...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 11:54hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Children to pay the price for Trump's 'Muslim ban'?
As U.S. President Donald Trump's revised travel ban takes effect, an upcoming Fault Lines documentary on Al Jazeera highlights the consequences of a blanket policy that closes America's doors to those...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 10:46hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Trump explains travel ban via Twitter
US President Donald Trump has said "If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the "bad" would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad "dudes" out there!"...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 16:35hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
President Mphoko mourns former Iran leader
Acting President Phelekezela Mphoko has described the role played by the late former President of Iran, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, as one that inspired many Zimbabweans to redouble their ...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
To Decide is to Govern!
I have made a pledge to you my readers. A pledge I will always endeavour to fulfil for as long as I write. That pledge is to raise difficult questions, break taboos, speak and spill the truth, so this...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tendai Biti seeking power through back door
IN recent times, there has been a push by vanquished opposition groups for what some have termed the National Transitional Authority (NTA) to run the affairs of Zimbabwe. The strangest thing is that t...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
Of protests, puppets and parochialism
NEO-COLONIALISM has and continues to be a stealthy yet salient cancer on the African and in particular, the Zimbabwean political landscape. The West's mantra of the ineptitude of African governments a...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Mpumelelo Nyoni
Grace Mugabe fears uprising
First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday said she feared Zimbabwe could slip into turmoil similar to the uprisings that toppled dictators in North Africa.Grace told a Zanu-PF Harare inter-district me...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ISIS fighters who fled battlefield BOILED ALIVE
ISIS executed seven of its own fighters by boiling them alive as punishment for fleeing an Iraqi battlefield. The terrorists ran away from a conflict in Sharqat in the Salahuddin province ...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 19:46hrs | | by Staf Reporter
Mugabe exit, How Zimbabwean police and army will help Zimbabweans in August
Each and every Policeman and Army Officer who serves in Zimbabwe is a son and a daughter to a Zimbabwean mother. Zimbabwe does not import Police and soldiers from other countries. We sleep in the ...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 22:53hrs | | by Rakanga Danble
World War 2 tunnels and bunkers discovered in Mbare
Underground tunnels and bunkers believed to have been built during the Second World War have been discovered in Mbare at a place known as Beatrice cottages.Beatrice cottages were resident to a...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 19:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Russia bombs CIA trained rebels
Beirut - Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a further sign of the r...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 17:43hrs | | by Reuters
Drawing parallels between South Africa's Xenophobia and the benevolence of the German Government
While it would make sense to an average African to tell him/her that Africans are very kind people, their philosophy of Ubuntu embraces all that is African and all those living in Africa, It is diffic...Published: 29 Sep 2015 at 20:01hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'Africa needs more Mugabes'
NAMIBIAN President Hage Geingob described him as his icon.He has also made an immediate impression on newly-elected Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, who has described him as the African h...Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 08:09hrs | | by Savious Kwinika in JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Empowering the Zimbabwe Parliament
Re-engineering our politics through a systems approach and changeIntroductionParliament is a very impor...Published: 26 Feb 2015 at 06:02hrs | | by Patriotic Jukwa
Iraq lifts years-old nightly curfew in Baghdad
Iraq has lifted a years-old nightly curfew in the capital, Baghdad, in a bid by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's government to make the city feel more liveable despite persistent violence plaguing the...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 03:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
How to explain the extraordinary durability of Robert Mugabe?
How to explain the extraordinary durability of Robert Mugabe? The Zimbabwean President, who is 91 in February, and who has led his country since 1980 has just been elected the new Chairman of the Afri...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 21:45hrs | | by Neil Clark
South Africa and the denial of xenophobia
The history of the 20th century is one of tragic national denials that became fuel and springboards for numerous wars and on the back of which genocide was invented long before there was a word for it...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 13:08hrs | | by Professor Tinyiko Maluleke
Iraq calls for unified Arab stance against terrorist IS group
BEIRUT - Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki called on Tuesday for a unified Arab stance to face the danger of terrorism represented by the Islamic State Group (IS).Al-Maliki and the accompan...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 15:28hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
British fighter jets strike ISIS jihadists west of Baghdad
London - British fighter jets fired on Islamic State militants west of Baghdad overnight, the Ministry of Defence said Wednesday, in their second strikes in as many days in Iraq.Two Royal Air ...Published: 01 Oct 2014 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States
New York - Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States, the prime minister said on Thursday, but...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 08:21hrs | | by Reuters
Islamic State opens new anti-US front with beheading video
Baghdad - Islamic State's beheading of a US journalist and its threat to "destroy the American cross" suggests it has gained enough confidence seizing large areas of Iraq and Syria to take aim at Amer...Published: 20 Aug 2014 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
US tightened sanctions on Zimbabwe, blocks medicines destined for Harare
The United States has tightened sanctions on Zimbabwe after endorsing "final rule" stringent measures that will see the Office of Foreign Assets Control intercepting funds and goods such as medicines ...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 07:26hrs | | by Kuda bwititi
Judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death executed
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters have reportedly captured and executed the judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, a Facebook post attributed to Ibrahim al-Douri, who was a top aid...Published: 23 Jun 2014 at 23:38hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Obama on Iraq elections
Statement by the President on Elections in IraqOn behalf of the American people, I congratulate the Iraqi people on the completion of yesterday's parlia...Published: 01 May 2014 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Two bombs explode outside Baghdad cafe, killing 17 people
Two bombs exploded outside a cafe in Baghdad on Monday, killing 17 people and wounding 37, police and medical sources said, the latest in a series of attacks on the few social meeting places left open...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe meets Kuwaiti oil baron
President Robert Mugabe, who is attending the Africa-Arab summit in Kuwait, on Tuesday met Independent Petroleum Group (IPG) chairman Mr Khalaf Ahmad Ali Al-Khalaf for talks, the New Ziana reporte...Published: 20 Nov 2013 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mugabe is a true African hero
SHORTLY after the conclusion of the Zimbabwe general elections last month, I came across a South African newspaper article, whose heading made me wonder at the temerity of President Robert Mugabe in h...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 11:31hrs | | by Phathekile Holomisa
al-Qaeda leader calls on Egyptians to fight army
Cairo - A leader of al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch called Saturday on Egyptians to fight their army and derided the Muslim Brotherhood as "evil" for seeking power through democracy.The audio message ...Published: 31 Aug 2013 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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